Hello Fellow Normal Americans: Trump Thinks You Need ID to Buy Food

In an ultra-rich-person moment at his latest forever-campaign rally in Tampa on Tuesday night, President Trump claimed you need photo ID to buy groceries in this country as part of a meandering argument for voter ID laws. Trump started by telling his crowd, where conspiracy theorists and Jim Acosta haters were unsurprisingly well represented, that “only American citizens should vote in American elections” as a response to an argument no one is making. “Which is why the time has come for voter ID, like everything else,” he continued. “You know, if you want to go out and want to buy groceries, you need your picture, on a card. You need ID,” Trump, a man who has apparently never purchased groceries, told the crowd. “The only time you don’t need it, in many cases, is when you want to vote for a president, when you want to vote for a senator.” A number of outlets published home-run fact checks to correct the record that any person without that many zeros in offshore bank accounts already knew. (You only need ID to buy things like alcohol, cigarettes, or the really good cold medicine they keep behind the counter now.) The moment is also the latest installment in a long history of rich politicians being so divorced from the lives of everyday people that they occasionally have high profile “gaffes,” like Hillary Clinton admitting she hadn’t driven a car in more than 20 years, or Mitt Romney’s entire presidential campaign. Trump is a… [Read full story]